Executive Profile*

William H. Gray III

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$285,635

Background*

Mr. William H. Gray, III, also known as Bill is the Founder of The Amani Group LLC. and has been the Chairman since August 2004. Mr. Gray serves as Senior Advisor to Government Affairs Practice at Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal LLP. He served as the Head of Public Policy and Business Diversity at Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC. Mr. Gray served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The United Negro College Fund, Inc. (UNCF), the nation's largest and oldest ... minority education assistance organization from September 1991 to March 2004. Before joining UNCF, Mr. Gray represented the Second District of Pennsylvania as a Congressman from 1979 to 1991. He joined Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC (alternate name, Buchanan Ingersoll PC) as Senior Advisor of Public Policy and Business Diversity in April 2005. He was the first African American in the 20th century to become Majority Whip of the House of Representatives. He served as the Special Advisor to the President and to the Secretary of State on Haiti during the Clinton administration. He serves as the Chairman of Gray Global Strategies, Inc. He served as the Chairman of The Amani Group from August 2004 to September 2009 From October 2009 to January 2012, he served as co-chairman GrayLoeffler, LLC. He served as Vice Chairman for the Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care, and has served on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He has been a Director at Pfizer Inc., since June 2000, Prudential Financial Inc. since January 2001 and Lotus Development Corp. since 1994. He has been the Director of Prudential Insurance Company of America, an Investment Manager of Prudential Variable Contract Real Property Account since September 1991. Mr. Gray has been a Director of Dell Singapore Pte. Ltd., since November 2000 and Warner-Lambert Company LLC since 1991. He serves as a Director of MBIA Inc., Dell Computer Corporation, Municipal Bond Investors Assurance Corporation, Rockwell International Corporation, Union Pacific Corporation, and The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. He serves as a Director of Innovation Philadelphia Inc. He served as a Director at Dell Inc., since November 2000 and Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. He served as a Director of The Chase Manhattan Corporation from 1992 to 2000 and JPMorgan Chase & Co. from 1992 to May 15, 2012. He served as a Director of Viacom Inc. from May 2000 to May 19, 2004 and HP Enterprise Services, LLC (alternate name Electronic Data Systems Corporation) since 1997. He served as a Director of Visteon Corporation since June 2000. Mr. Gray served as a Director of CBS Corporation since 1991. He served as a Director of EzGov UK Ltd., EzGov Inc. and EzGov Europe, Inc. He served as a Director of St. Peter's College from 1970 to 1974. He served as a Director of Rockwell Automation Inc. from 1994 to February 3, 2005. From 1968 to 1972, he served as a Lecturer at Jersey City State College, Rutgers University and Montclair State College. He served as an Assistant Professor of St. Peter's College from 1970 to 1974. In addition, he has taught at Temple University. Mr. Gray received his B.A. degree from Franklin & Marshall College. He holds M.A. in divinity from Drew Theological Seminary and an M.A. in theology and Church History from Princeton Theological Seminary.

Former Chairman of Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, Chairman of Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee, Director, Member of Organization and Compensation Committee and Member of Organization and Compensation Committee

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